Oakes v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Barbieri,

Joyce E. Oakes, Claimant, widow of James C. Oakes, appeals here the order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a referee’s decision dismissing her claim petition filed on behalf of herself and three of the four children of herself and the decedent.1

James C. Oakes, at the time of his death on September 17, 1977, was employed by Pennsylvania Electric Company (Company) as a line foreman, and on that date he was called upon as “duty foreman” to *456deal with an outage in a town served with electric power by Company. In response to this emergency…